Raffaello
Black pepper crackles first, dry and woody, while pink pepper adds a rosy sparkle that keeps the opening lively rather than austere.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Leather90
- Patchouli60
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Leather
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, dry and woody, while pink pepper adds a rosy sparkle that keeps the opening lively rather than austere. The twin peppers ride on a soft tonka undercurrent that sweetens the edges and links directly to the later leather. That leather emerges within twenty minutes, a smooth hide tanned with patchouli’s cool earthiness, creating a tobacco-dark impression without any tobacco listed. As skin warms, the pepper-leather accord relaxes, letting the tonka’s hay-like coumarin dominate the late dry-down, turning the scent gently almond-sweet and powdery. Projection stays at arm’s length for most of its life, making it office-friendly yet quietly distinctive. Cool autumn days and smart-casual settings suit its balanced dark-sweet character best, though the clean patchouli allows year-round wear.
Scent twins
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